CARL HOLDER (WRITER/PERFORMER)

Born in Gainesville Florida, Carl Holder received his BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase (2008), and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch (2020). His play Until You Come Back to Me won the 2020 Goldberg Play Prize and was a Finalist for the 2019 Neukom Literary Arts Playwriting Award. Carl was also a Semi-Finalist for The Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center. His play Waiter and Two Octopuses was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 O'Neill Playwrights Conference and a 2018/19 Finalist for the DVRF Playwrights Program. Charleses received an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation. Holder has twice been awarded an E-Grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art for his plays An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary, and re:opening. Carl has developed and/or performed work with Ars Nova, Incubator Arts Project, EST, Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation, The Tank, FringeNYC, The Brick, Standard Toykraft, The Gym at Judson, House of Yes, Hearth Gods, Allegra LaViola Gallery, The Gene Frankel, Ice Factory and The New Ohio.

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Carl is a 2024-25 Fellow in Target Margin Theater's Theatermaker Institute and was recently a member of The Bricks Inaugural Writer’s Group ‘SoundLab’ a residency developing fiction podcasts with playwrights. Carl has been a Scriptwriting Professor for the University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop, the Performing Arts Instructor at Garden School in Jackson Heights Queens, Guest Artist/Workshop Instructor for SPARC New Voices, and guest lecturer in the Acting departments of SUNY Purchase and The New School. Carl most recently taught for NYU/Tisch’s Department of Dramatic Writing, as well as Playwriting Intensives through The Brick’s education program. Carl lives in Brooklyn but is available to work anywhere anyone will have him.

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​SKYLAR FOX (DIRECTOR/DEVELOPED WITH/CO-DESIGNER)

Skylar Fox is an Obie Award-winning director, writer, and designer based in Brooklyn. He cares about making wildly theatrical plays and musicals that push the boundaries of what theatre can do to tell ambitiously vulnerable stories powerfully. 

 

He is the co-artistic director of Nightdrive, where he has directed and co-written an apocalypse around a campfire (The Grown-Ups); a live, immersive alien movie (Alien Nation); a five-dimensional community meeting with a full pancake breakfast (Providence, RI); a haunted rock concert (Thank You Sorry); and a hybrid comic book with interactive animation (Apathy Boy). He also directed and co-created The Annotated History of the American Muskrat by John Kuntz (New Ohio, Boston Center for the Arts). Current Nightdrive projects include a new musical about historical re-enactors called The Wayback, and Society, a part-play, part-participatory focus group performed with the audience and actors around (and on, and in secret compartments of) a giant conference room table. Society was named a semi-finalist for the Relentless Award.

 

Other directing credits include Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream (St. James Theater, global streaming), Pussy Sludge by Gracie Gardner (Relentless Award, HERE Arts Center), Juliet & Romeo (The Brick), and the Boston premieres of the 6-hour genre-bending epic The Valentine Trilogy and of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, for which he was nominated for an IRNE Award.

 

As a magic designer, Skylar is the Illusions & Magic Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway and around the world, and has created magic for Fat Ham (Broadway, The Public Theater and National Black Theatre), Once Upon A Mattress (Broadway, City Center ENCORES!), Boop! (Broadway), You Will Get Sick (Roundabout), Cats: The Jellicle Ball (PAC), Wicked, Matilda (Atelier de Cultura, Sao Paolo), The Comeuppance (Signature Theater, Almeida), The Preacher’s Wife (Alliance), Back to the Future (assoc. design, Broadway), A Beautiful Noise (assoc. design, Broadway), Damn Yankees (Shaw Festival), Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (London Grand), Dracula, A Christmas Carol (Maltz Jupiter Theater), and consulted on The Tonight Show, The Tony Awards, and San Diego Comic Con.

 

​​​SIMON HENRIQUES (REFEREE)

Simon Henriques is an actor and writer. He is the co-artistic director of the theatre company Nightdrive, with which he co-writes, produces, and performs in structurally experimental, narratively ambitious plays, including The Grown-Ups (Time Out NY's Top 10 Plays of the Year) and Society (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Relentless Award semifinalist). He is a member of the resident acting company at the Mercury Store, where he works with directors on new projects early in development. Most recently, he appeared in the movie On A String, which premiered this summer at the Tribeca Festival. Thanks to Carl and Skylar for their trust. simonhenriques.com

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ADAM WYRON (CO-DESIGNER)

Adam Wyron is a theater designer, technical director, and teacher. He works with Nightdrive and Skylar Fox regularly. He is moving to Baltimore as soon as next week, so email him at awyron@gmail.com if you know anyone with a good house or apartment to rent there. He loves dogs.

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KATIE ORENSTEIN (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR)

Katie Devin Orenstein is a theater artist and worker in New York City whom the New York Times described in 2025 as “an effusive stranger” and in 2023 as “a recent college graduate.” This May she directed You Can’t Take It With You in Greenpoint in a production spearheaded by Moss Hart’s granddaughter Emma, and in January she directed an experimental Hamlet in Williamsburg. She is delighted to make it back to Manhattan with Out of Order, and would like to thank Skylar, Carl, Simon, Adam & Connor for welcoming her into this wonderful experience even though she is a woman. Other credits include multiple world premieres with playwright Victoria Provost, the premiere of James Holod Kennedy’s Jo & Laurie, and Michael Friedman and Bess Wohl’s cult musical about the porn industry, Pretty Filthy. As a writer, her play The Hall of Human Origins was a 2025 National Playwrights Conference semifinalist and the 2021 winner of Drtmouths' Forst Prize. (Ask her about this script! It's on New Play Exchange if ya nasty!) By day she is a producer’s assistant on Maybe Happy Ending. Upcoming: writing a play with Will Bruno about fandom as a cause and cure for insanity. Writing a sincere bio is hard for her, please tell her if it successfully walked the line between humble and intimidating. katiedevinorenstein.com // insta @katieorenstein_

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MOST UNWANTED PRODUCTIONS (PRODUCER)

A New York-based company led by Connor Scully, dedicated to creating visually inventive, genre-bending performance. Recent work includes Vile Isle by Justin Halle (The Tank Core Production), SOUR MILK’s DIRT (Loading Dock, The Tank), U are the dream by Allyson Dwyer (The Brick), Rich Beyond Our Wildest Dreams by Ben Firke (Atlanta Fringe), The Spaghetti Variable by Mitchell Ashe (Atlanta Fringe), One in Four (Edinburgh Fringe), and Taste by Sophie Zucker (UCB, Littlefield, Lyric Hyperion). @MostUnwantedProductions​

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CONNOR SCULLY (PRODUCER)

Connor Scully is a New York-based director and producer who leads Most Unwanted Productions. He also serves as the Marketing and Audience Engagement Manager at The Tank. He’s got a beautiful dog named Ellen. You should ask him to see pictures, because he doesn’t post her enough. Columbia TM&P 2025. @sculliosis

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SMALL BOAT PRODUCTIONS (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER)

Small Boat Productions is a Brooklyn-based theater outfit committed to building out the downtown theater scene and uplifting early career theater workers. Small Boat was founded in April of 2024 by Ben Natan and has produced a sold out revival of Waiting for Lefty, a New York Times Reviewed run of MEOW! at Exponential Fest, and will be producing the New York debut of Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City this fall at ART/NY. Follow what we’re doing on Instagram @SmallBoatPC. ​